An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1981 with Mrs. Irene Napier at her home in Mount Olive, Mississippi. Napier was born on December 21, 1917 at Mount Olive in Covington, Mississippi. After having studied two years at Jones County...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 31, 1981 with Mr. Cecil Shelton at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Shelton was born on September 1, 1945 in Gore Springs, Mississippi. After graduating high school in...
Oral history.; Mrs. Alyce West Richardson was born on August 2, 1930, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She graduated from Cleveland High School and Delta State Teachers College and worked as the secretary-treasurer of West Implement Company, Inc., and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Message from Mississippi," produced by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This address was prepared for individuals who volunteered to speak publicly on behalf of the Mississippi State...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
State football championship T-shirt from 1979. Pictured on the shirt is USM's eagle mascot carrying the mascots of the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University, one in each hand down by his side. Below each opposing mascot is the...
cartoon by John Stampone; This cartoon contains four frames. Within the four frames, two bald, fat men shovel dirt and fill in a hole in the ground. One man is labeled "Soviets" and the other man is labeled "Red China" In the first frame, a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two exterior walls of a hardware store are seen (looking straight on at the corner), each with a large plate glass window. Above the store is the banner, "La.'s Sunday closing...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The front of a greeting card shows Leonid Brezhnez holding the Communist sickle and Mao Zedong the hammer, each threatening each other. Both men have their eyes closed. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, each wearing boxing gloves and with a bandage on the face, are seen on a television screen. In the background of the television picture is a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two boxes are stacked on top of each other, each labeled, "Vaccine...This end up." One box also has a sign attached that reads, "Orleans-St. Bernard K.O. measles...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Eugene McCarthy and Nelson Rockefeller face each other. Each holds a sign in one hand and points behind himself (in the direction from which he has come?). McCarthy's sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen and a man labeled "Par" sit under a large tree, apart from each other, and look back at each other over their shoulders. On the tree trunk...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong are each seated in half of a rowboat that has broken apart. Each man has two oars in the water. A fierce storm blows above the "Red Sea," which...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey are each reaching into separate boxes labeled "Campaign TNT." Each holds sticks of dynamite and is scowling at the other.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Eugene McCarthy and John Volpe stand on the globe within the outline of the state of Massachusetts, which is labeled "Tomorrow's Mass. primary." They are facing each other and...
